21st century events (part 1)

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year	event	Answer
2001	Following 9/11 terrorist attack, the US invades this country	Afghanistan
2001	This superpower joins the World Trade Organization	China
2001	11 members of the royal family of this country are killed	Nepal
2002	This currency enters circulation	Euro
2002	This small country gains independence	East Timor
2002	This European country finally decides to join the United Nations	Switzerland
2003	This Space Shuttle disintegrates, killing all sevens astronauts on board	Columbia
2003	Last flight of this supersonic plane	Concorde
2004	Train bombings in this European city kills 193 people	Madrid
2004	This type of disaster occurs in the Indian Ocean and kills around 230,000 people	Tsunami
2005	This Pope dies	John Paul II
2005	This hurricane kills 1,836 people in the US	Katrina
2006	This dictator is executed	Saddam Hussein
2007	The treaty of ... is signed	Lisbon
2008	Cyclone Nargis kills 133,000 people in this Asian country	Myanmar
2008	This country declares independence	Kosovo
2008	Russia invades this country	Georgia
2008	An earthquake in this Chinese province kills 87,000+ people	Sichuan
2009	228 people die in a plane crash from ... to Paris	Rio de Janeiro

year	event	Answer
2009	flight US Airways 1549 miraculously lands in this river	Hudson River
2009	This singer dies	Michael Jackson
2009	Australia is devastated by the Black Saturday ...	Bushfires
2010	A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in this country kills around 230,000 people	Haiti
2010	The president of this country is killed in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia	Poland
2010	First structure to reach 800 meters	Burj Khalifa
2010	Located in this country, volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupts	Iceland
2010	This offshore drilling rig explodes	Deepwater Horizon
2011	A 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggers a tsunami and a nuclear accident in this city	Fukushima
2011	This country gains independence	South Sudan
2011	Terrorist attacks in this European country kills 77 people	Norway
2011	This African dictator is captured and killed	Muammar Gaddafi
2012	This leader is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party	Xi Jinping
2013	A ... strikes the Chekyabinsk oblast in Russia, injuring around 1,500 people	Meteor
2013	This country joins the EU	Croatia
2013	The Rana Plaza collapse occurs in this Asian country, killing 1,134 people	Bangladesh
2013	This African leader dies	Nelson Mandela
2013	The epidemic of this virus begins in Africa	Ebola

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